Sunday’s elimination rounds are upon us – today we’ll be crowning all of the Street Car Super Nationals IX champions. With a pile of money up for grabs in all of the classes, we fully expect to see toes hanging through the firewall in every single class. Conditions are excellent, the racers are ready, and so are we. As always, stay with us throughout the day as we bring you coverage as quickly as possible.
ELIMINATION LADDERS
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We caught up with Wild Street racer Nick Kincade in the pits this morning – the team was just wrapping up a fresh piston installation. The 19-year-old from Phoenix is racing for the first time on a national scale – he and his dad, Bill, have been working through the gremlins with his machine. The BBC-powered Mustang is fed with two stages of nitrous.Yvonne Lucas had quite the day yesterday. The veteran Pro Mod racer hurt the rearend during qualifying; luckily crewmember Mike Stevenson discovered the issue with the floater rear before it got ugly on the track. She enlisted the help of Ryan from RH Racecars and procured a welder from Mike Maggio’s team to get the car repaired. She also had an issue with one of the parachutes trying to separate itself from the car due to the windy conditions yesterday. She’s 14th on the Precision Turbo Pro Mod ladder and will face Dale Peterson’s Monte Carlo in round one today.Outlaw 10.5 racer Eric Pederson’s crew was hard at work prepping his ’51 Chevy for competition this morning. The ProCharged car has just four hits on the new rearend/torque converter combination and they are still working out the bugs. The 18-hour trip from Seattle didn’t deter him from showing up, however. And in a twist of irony, first-round opponent Steve Nicholson is running a starter borrowed from Pederson.We love Wild Street racer Jeff Bomyea’s Camaro, so we have to go find out more about it. Turns out that he hurt his actual racecar, a ’68 Nova, in the first round of qualifying, so he phoned a friend to bring the Camaro, his daily-driven street car, as a replacement. It has a pair of 64mm turbochargers feeding the small block Chevy engine on E85 fuel and has been a 5.51 (eighth-mile) so far this weekend. According to Jeff, his car sees 200 miles every weekend on the street and is no stranger to the quick motorcycles in the Phoenix area.Yvonne Lucas’ repairs were on point this morning, and she was on her game on the tree in the first round of competition. Up against Dale Pederson, she strapped on a huge holeshot to move on to the second round, where she subsequently took out Mike Gondziola when Gondziola got sideways downtrack.We’ve got our second Outlaw Pro Mod racer in the 5.60’s – Mike Maggio’s machine clipped off a 5.69 at 260 MPH in the first round on his single pass. Unfortunately, Maggio went out in the second round to Tommy Johanns when Johanns strapped a massive holeshot to him on the starting line.In the first round of Outlaw Pro Mod this morning, John Stanley used up all 1,320 feet of track and then some, doing a terrific driving job when the car got out of the groove. He took the line in round two, but elected to back out and roll away on his bye run.Mike DeMayo, Jr. lowered the bar yet again in Hot Street this morning, running an 8.10 at 166-plus on a single when Randy Jones didn’t make the call, DeMayo has a bye through the semis straight into the final round.John Urist ran his best elapsed time of the season this morning, clipping off a 7.11 in XDR/TT5. The team consists of Urist and wife Missy, who has been on a roll all weekend, changing tires, running valves, and doing whatever’s necessary to John down the track. They face Steven Fereday in the second round of competition.
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We've been covering drag racing for years, but we've never seen this one before. Mike Keenan came to the line with one gear - reverse. When Chris Hermon didn't make the call, Keenan was able to back - yes, back - into the beams before being pushed out by his team. Able to move to the second round of competition, Keenan's team was thrashing in the pits when we stopped by to get the transmission rebuilt. Turbo Todd Moyer’s head-gasket diagnosis appears to have been correct. The car is fixed up, and he came out and ripped off a 4.83 this morning in Wild Street.Toaster Jones struggled through the first round – the car fell off quite a bit. An inspection in the pits found a broken rocker arm – the repairs were already underway and he’ll be back for the next round. There, Jimmy Grace outran him to the finish line, as Toaster struggled to get out of the hole and limped down the track in the upset of the day in Outlaw 8.5.Despite crossing the finish line last in his second-round matchup with Greg Hindman, Doug Sikora got another chance when Hindman’s machine exploded just past the finish line. Hindman elected to bypass the scales, giving Sikora a second chance to race this weekend. He’ll face Mike Murillo in the quarterfinals – it looks like Doug’s been the recipient of a few second chances recently.Tony Aneian upped the ante in Hot Street in the second round of competition, improving to an 8.07 in the process of eliminating Matt Funkhouser. He’ll have lane choice against DeMayo in the semifinal.In the battle of the round in XDR/TT5, John Urist came up against Steven Fereday. After a lengthy staging battle, Fereday launched and immediately the transmission let loose, trailing fluid all the way down the track. In the other lane, Urist went for the ride of his life, sending the car up, and up, and up onto the bumper before coming down hard. Urist crossed the finish line first with a 9.92 to get the win.It was an absolutely insane round in Outlaw Pro Mod. Pro Line Racing teammates Troy Coughlin and Eric Dillard met up in the semifinal round, and for the first time this weekend, Troy ran a quicker elapsed time over Dillard to take the win. John Stanley advanced over Tommy Johanns in the other pairing to set up the final between Coughlin and Stanley.Greg Seth-Hunter ended Yvonne Lucas’ run in the Turbo Pro Mod class, running a 6.24 to Lucas’ shutdown 23.55.Eric Latino made a statement that he’s here to win with a strong win over Clint Hairston in Turbo Pro Mod – a 6.11 come-from-behind win over Hairston.It’s not often that Billy Glidden sees the bottom side of a reaction time battle, but Steve Nicholson strapped one on him in the quarterfinals of Outlaw 10.5, then won the elapsed time battle as well, sending Glidden home.Ken Sihota continued his great weekend in Outlaw 10.5, running low ET of the day in the quarters to take out Rick Snavely.Doug Sikora’s lucky horseshoe was on board in his Mustang-on-Mustang battle with Mike Murillo. Mike took the advantage on the tree, but Doug simply powered around him as Murillo shut it down,. Doug moves on to face Sihota in one semi, while Nicholson faces Arnie Fisher’s S-10 in the other.Look how close it was at the thousand-foot mark in the semifinals of Hot Street! Mike DeMayo lit the winner’s bulb with an 8.09 at 166, sending top qualifier Tony Aneian home. DeMayo will meet Vic Brum in the final round.In the final round of XDR/TT5, Roger Holder’s weekend came to an unexpected end. Despite having a few tenths in the bag against the field, his Camaro failed to fire. The crew rushed over to try to get the car to turn over with no success.Jeff Kyle pulled to the line and waited for Holder, idling away, before finally taking the tree when it became clear that Holder wasn’t going to make the call. Kyle made an easy hit for the win.Chase Driskell ran the table in Wild Street to take home the pile of cash, taking out Gary Glessen, Armen Magdhessian, and Lamar Swindoll, Jr. on his way to the final against Eric Gustafson. Gustafson had been ‘the man’ all weekend, but when both racers had to pedal in the final round, Driskell recovered more quickly to take home the win, 5.82 to Gustafson’s 6.47.All weekend long, Mike DeMayo, Jr. (left) had been chipping away at his elapsed time, and was most successful in the final round, where he ran an 8.08, the quickest Hot Street pass of the weekend, to Vic Brum’s 9.74.Scott Bieschke (right) had a long drive from his Henderson, Nevada home base to enter the Outlaw 8.5 class. With Krusty Ramsey out in the previous round thanks to a backfire, the final round was wide open, and Bieschke charged through the door against Anthony Smith in the final. Despite giving up the holeshot, Bieschke had a tenth advantage at the finish line.In the first final-round Battle Of Canadians, Ken Sihota (right) entered the Outlaw 10.5 final round against Steve Nicholson (left) after getting quicker and quicker all day long. Unfortunately, he was too quick on the draw when it counted most in a battle of nitrous cars and handed Nicholson the win at the starting line.The second Battle Of Canadians came in the Turbo Pro Mod final round, between Eric Latino (left) and Joe Delahay (right). Latino gave up over a tenth on the tree and was unable to gain it back by the stripe, despite running the quicker elapsed time.Outlaw Pro Mod saw the unexpected as well, as John Stanley’s luck finally ran out against Troy Coughlin. Stanley had been fighting ignition issues and the car didn’t make a clean run, while Coughlin made a clean run right down Broadway to take home the win.
Yesterday we saw incredible racing, killer wheelstands, and a ton of high-quality racecars going down the track. The final qualifying sessions for all heads-up cars take place today, and we’ll be bringing you the action as quickly as we can throughout the day. Keep checking back for results and photography all day!
John Mihovetz did not have a fun night last night, after discovering a spun rear main bearing and damaged crankshaft. The ‘Modular Master’ had a crankshaft delivered from his Accufab shop in California, the team pulled the engine, and everything is repaired. We walked by this morning and they were putting the finishing touches on, and Mihovetz feels that if the car will get through second gear cleanly, the five-second zone is only a timeslip away.True Ten 5/XDR racer Lucas Mlinar was strapping on a fresh set of Mickey Thompson ET Street Radial Pro tires this morning. The Winnipeg-based racer (31 hours away!) is looking to go 6’s for the first time today, and he’s up against racers using the 315 tire in the process. He made his first 200 MPH pass in the 540-cube turbocharged ’01 Firebird and sits in the seventh spot out of 28 cars.After his monster wheelstand last night (see yesterday’s coverage for a great photo), Armen Maghdessian was conferring with Matt Mungall from Racecraft Inc. this morning in the pits, trying to get his machine down the track cleanly in Wild Street. Earlier this week, he was spinning on every hit, now he’s reaching for the sky each time he’s looking for a solid middle ground.Saskatchewan-based Dan Vogt was making clutch changes this morning in his Pro Mod Corvette. The team reviewed the computer data and was in the process of adding more counterweight to help get the car moving efficiently. He’s solidly tenth with a 6.29 at 223 MPH in the field of 20 cars.Outlaw 8.5 racer George Raygoza was warming the car up this morning when we stopped by. ‘I stood the car up, which I have never done on these tires, so we’re trying to get the car figured out for eliminations tomorrow,’ he said. Even so, he’s working his magic on the AES Racing Engines-built, Induction Solutions-nitroused 532 big-block Chevy.Priddis, Alberta, Canada’s Glen Kerunsky made a huge jump up in the Turbo Pro Mod class, going from 17th to sixth with a strong 6.124 at 232MPH.Troy Coughlin and the JEGS team also stepped up in this morning’s third Outlaw Pro Mod session, gaining three hundredths and solidifying their third qualifier position.
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In the first pairing of Outlaw Pro Mod this morning, Albuquerque, New Mexico's Shawn Jones went for a wild ride when his '72 Duster shot across the centerline and pancaked into the left-side wall. We went by his pit to see if he'd be back, but everything is packed up save for the golf carts. We wish him luck in getting the gorgeous '72 Duster repaired.
Tyler Clark of Wicked Graffixx is here working as a crewmember for John and Camp Stanley. He told us he’s having the time of his life working on the record-setting Pro Mod.Yesterday we told you about AJ Kephart’s dad Chris and his wild ride in XDR/TT5. Chris had to pedal the car in today’s first session and didn’t improve on yesterday’s qualifying effort, but it was the smile on AJ’s face that stood out to us. Now that’s the look of someone who’s happy to be here!Toaster continued his roll in Outlaw 8.5. If you can believe it, he improved on his qualifying time and set the mark in 8.5 down to a stunning 5.006 at 147.50. He’s got that machine figured out!Krusty Ramsey leapfrogged over George Raygoza in this morning’s Outlaw 8.5 session. He put a huge 5.10 up on the board to make a statement.For those of you who are Street Outlaws fans, the Sonoma is here making test passes – no time passes, of course.Tony Aneian has been chipping away at his 510-cube Hot Street combination all weekend, battling back and forth with Mike DeMayo Jr. for supremacy in the all-motor class. In the fourth qualifying session this morning, Aneian tripped the timers with an 8.119 to edge ahead of DeMayo’s best 8.124 pass.Rod DeWild also moved up in Hot Street, improving his elapsed time to an 8.305 at 160 MPH.He moved up yo third over Victor Brum and Matt Funkhouser.That’s the look of pure satisfaction – Krusty Ramsey (right) busted into the four-second zone in Outlaw 8.5, becoming the first-ever nitrous racer to do so. We caught up with him not long after the pass, and he had thanks for everyone – his wife, his engine builder,Tony Bischoff of Bischoff Engine Services, even the fans sitting in the stands watching. In the process Ramsey topped Ryan Jones and George Raygoza to take the top spot entering eliminations. An awesome pass – congratulations, Krusty!Turbo Todd Moyer was hard at work in the pits tonight diagnosing some issues – from what we understand, the head gasket let loose between two cylinders, knocking the compression out of that section of the engine. Looks like it’s going to be a long night ahead for his crew.In today’s first session, Texas Wild Street racer Terry Thompson had his hood decide to make a quick exit around the 800-foot mark. ‘One minute everything was fine, the next I found myself looking at the sky and my hood up there,’ he says. It was a windshield-fit hood and wasn’t allowing air to escape, which caused it to lift off. The team made the necessary repairs to get him ready for the last round of qualifying. The ’67 Chevy II has a Reher-Morrison 572 and Induction Solutions fogger on board, and is 17th heading into tomorrow’s eliminations.This is not the news we wanted to report, but in the interest of full disclosure we have to explain that Chris Kephart’s weekend is over. “I was on a pass – the car was going straight and true, and then all of a sudden I was looking at the wall,’ he told us. He vows to rebuild with the assistance of son AJ and his ‘second wife’, Joel Orme of Orme Brothers. Despite the damage to the car, he was upbeat in the pits, explaining that he was more upset about hurting AJ’s car than anything else.
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After a month-plus of eighteen-hour days, Damon Rivetti's Outlaw 8.5 LSX-powered Mustang made it here justin time fo rth elast round of qualifying. Rivetti, along with sponsor Greg Shampine of Ultra Carbon and the Ultra Carbon team, stripped the car down to nothing before a complete rebuild. Rivetti shook the car down on his only pass, carding a 6.92 (eighth-mile) but says he'll be ready for eliminations tomorrow morning. Tony Aneian captured the top spot in Hot Street despite earning the exact same elapsed time as Mike DeMayo, Jr. down to the thousandth of a second – 8.119. Aneian gets the nod thanks to his higher top speed through the traps – tomorrow should be a dogfight in this class.Mike Maggio’s Hemi-powered machine is easily one of the loudest Pro Mods we’ve ever heard. All of that incredible sound translated into a number-four qualifier spot just behind the trio of Stanley, Dillard, and Coughlin, with a 5.76 at 257-plus.Vic Brum took the third spot in Hot Street back thanks to a strong 8.28 at 162 MPH in tonight’s final session. He’ll face Joe Keurjikian tomorrow in the first round.John Mihovetz’ Modular engine is the smallest in the Outlaw Pro Mod class by 132 cubic inches, but his performance on the track has him sitting in the seventh qualified spot with a 6.089 at 244 MPH. We’d have to say that the overnight crankshaft replacement worked out just fine.
FINAL QUALIFYING ALL CLASSES
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 After a record-shattering Street Car Super Nationals in 2012, the drag racing world has been waiting all year for an encore performance at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, and the ninth running of the popular west coast doorslammer extravaganza is finally upon us. Dragzine will be on hand all weekend bringing you the stories, photos, and results of SCSN IX. Will we see the all-time doorslammer records fall this weekend? Keep it tuned here to find out!
Friday’s qualifying sessions are upon us, with excellent weather forecast and a quality track surface we expect to see some killer times.
Last night we told you John Stanley seemed to have the 5.60 zone well in hand – and he came out and proved it during this morning’s first qualifying session. An absolutely sick 5.644 at 253 MPH showed up on the board- and the crowd went absolutely crazy, The first-ever 5.60-anything in Pro Mod – and we were here to witness it. Simply amazing. Congratulations to the whole Stanley and Weiss racing team on an incredible accomplishment!We caught up with Camp Stanley in the pits just after his record run to get the scoop on what made it possible. “If you can believe it, we didn’t even have a quarter-mile tuneup when we left. I have a lot of experience with Roots blowers but not a whole lot with a screw blower,” he said. Regardless, the team strapped it on, Camp tickled the keys on the laptop, and the record fell. Even more amazing is that they are running on the tiny tire instead of the big meats most of their competition has. Camp explained, “We’re on the SKI vacation – Spending my Kid’s Inheritance.” Somehow we don’t think John minds a whole lot.Check out this awesome street-driven ’66 Nova owned by Montana’s Kevin Delap. There’s a Dart conventional-headed 602-cube BBC onboard fed by three kits of Nitrous Works giggle gas.
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Kevin's Nova still has roll-up windows, a functional interior, and is street-driven on a relatively-regular basis. 'The car is way too heavy - we can weigh 2200 pounds in our class and we crossed the scales at 3140.' They've been a 7.65 best, but they normally compete at 8-10,000 feet of air at home. Dal Sangha went for quite the wild ride this morning thanks to some evacuated fluid on the track. No damage done to the car – he’ll be back for the next round.Ken Sihota made the trek down from Langley, British Columbia with his 2000 Firebird, and so far the trip has been worth it – the team is qualified second behind Billy Glidden in Outlaw 10.5 with a quick 6.42 at 215 MPH.
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Sihota's machine is stuffed full of a self-built 'tiny' 833-cube big-block Chevy and four kits of nitrous. The team was happy to have only received one speeding ticket on the way down. He didn’t get his recently-wrecked Wild Street Nova repaired in time to compete here, but Artis Houston (left) still made the trip out from California to watch. He was thrilled to be able to hang out with NMRA Street Outlaw racer Sean Ashe (right) this morning.Scott Oksas topped the Pro Mod ladder this morning in his 1970 Camaro. The Hemi-powered machine was one of three in the 5-second range in the ‘baby’ Pro Mod class with a 5.94 at 248 MPH.After seeing Doug Harvey blast down the track yesterday in this wild Volkswagen Bug, we had to go find out the details.
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The VW is competing in Outlaw 10.5 this weekend - with a humongous true VW engine displacing a whopping 155 cubic inches. Yes, you read that correctly. The engine is pumped up by a Garrett GTX42 turbocharger and was built by partner Jim Larsen of JCL Racecars. The car has been an 8.01 best but the team is still working on it, as they have never raced on a 10.5 tire before. Nick Agostino made the trek down from Canada for the race. He normally competes on the East Coast at Cecil County in the Outlaw 10.5 class, which is eighth-mile. A rear-gear swap and a couple of other changes to get ready for the event, and the Camaro was stuck in the box to make the trip.
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Agostino's car is about as clean as they come - no detail has been overlooked on this bad-boy. He ran a 6.61 during this morning's qualifying session but feels the .30's are within reach as the hit was a soft one. We've got a feature planned on Nick's car for over the winter. Jermaine Boddie’s Outlaw 10.5 machine is qualified 19th in a stout field. The car runs a big-block Chevy with three kits. We almost walked past his car when we caught sight of crewmember Candace Williams changing the plugs. She’s been working on cars most of her life as her dad is a mechanic and had her in the shop contributing at the young age of six, and she told us there’s nowhere she’d rather be on the weekend. Crew Chief Cole Dowell and Perry Brown also help to prepare the car.We love Dana Westover’s ’93 Supra. It’s his first time competing in the Outlaw 8.5 class with the Virtual Works-built car.
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The Supra relies on a built 3.4L engine and an 88mm turbocharger. He's put a 5.56 up on the board, which is off the pace of top qualifier Ryan Jones, but feels confident that the car can run 5.30's once he gets it sorted out. He's still trying to figure out how to get the power down on the tiny tire. One of the great things about coming to The Strip here in Las Vegas is the fact that Nellis Air Force Base is next door. The pilots provide a great distraction during oildowns.The Mickey Thompson crew has been hard at work since yesterday morning providing tire services to all of the competitors on-site.
Second Round Heads-Up Qualifying Results/First Round Pro Mod Qualifying Results
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John Stanley did it again in the second round of qualifying today, solidifying his claim on the quickest Pro Mod pass ever by duplicating his first-round run – a 5.644 at 253.04 MPH puts him at the top of the sheet heading into tomorrow.Just behind him on the list is Eric Dillard, driving Jose Gonzalez’ ‘El General’ machine. Dillard lit the clocks with a 5.72 at a whopping 261-plus MPH to earn that spot.Nick Agostino put an easy pass down in round one, but promptly stomped to the top of the Outlaw 10.5 field in the second session today with an unreal 6.262 at 216.31 MPH. In the pair just behind him, Ken Sihota figured out his nitrous machine to stop the timers with a 6.268. Mike Murillo sits in third with a 6.31 and the top MPH of anyone, 234.25 – outclassing the field by 14 MPH. Murillo had to pedal it on the 6.31 pass – we’ll see if he’s got more tomorrow.Armen Magdhessian went for a wild ride in Wild Street tonight. The track was hooking well and he was just one of many to shoot for the sky.Also riding high was Simi Valley, California’s Chris Kephart. The ’67 Chevy II has a Vortech 123mm supercharger on board powering the 509BBC engine.
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We'll be shooting a feature on Kephart's car tomorrow to appear on Dragzine in the near future. Yellowbullet readers may know of Kephart as AJ's dad - AJ is a youngster who's been battling cancer and chemo and the Yellowbullet family has rallied 'round to support him in his fight. Kephart competes in Xtreme Drag Radial with the 'Rat Drag Nova'. Bert Heck also went for a wild ride in his XDR/TT5 Camaro. He attempted to ride this one out but didn’t have much success, carding a 9.92 shutdown pass.Roger Holder snatched the XDR/TT5 top spot by a wide margin in tonight’s session, cranking off a 6.59 at 230-plus – nearly two tenths and 8 MPH better than his closest competition, Mike Keenan.Just moments after Tony Aneian put up an 8.126 in Hot Street, Mike DeMayo, Jr. decided he had had enough, and took the top spot right back with an 8.124 at 165.09.Ryan ‘Toaster’ Jones bettered yesterday’s top qualifier for Outlaw 8.5, going oh-so-close to the 4’s with a 5.028 at 149.22 MPH. George Raygoza improved immensely, carding a 5.178 in his ’68 Nova to take over the second position in the class of 29 racers.Eric Gustafson continued rocking in tonight’s session, taking his LSX-powered, ProCharged Mustang to a 4.60 at over 156 MPH. He’s got over a tenth on second-place Lamar Swindoll, Jr.We’ve had lots of carnage this weekend. As it’s the last real doorslammer race of the season, everyone’s set on kill. This is one of multiple blower belts that we found on the side of the track.Outlaw 10.5 racer Kelly Harvey hails from Colorado and runs a badass ’41 Willys,with the only roots-blown machine in the class. Harvey’s been struggling to figure out the combo with the decreased altitude compared to what hes used to running, and tuliped a pair of valves today, He was hard at work in the pits getting everything repaired tonight.Also taking time away from partying on the Strip was Doug Paddock, who’s managed to burn up a number of pushrods thanks to an oiling issue in his turbocharged small-block Ford engine. The team added some oil clearance via a notch in the pushrods thanks to advice from legendary engine builder Jason Pettis of Pettis Performance, and were repairing the engine for tomorrow.Chris Groves and his team were also hard at work in the pits performing some necessary maintenance. The Vortech-supercharged small block Ford engine powered him to a 4.85 in Wild Street today.
Results for Second Round Pro Mod/Third Round All Other Classes
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 After a record-shattering Street Car Super Nationals in 2012, the drag racing world has been waiting all year for an encore performance at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, and the ninth running of the popular west coast doorslammer extravaganza is finally upon us. Dragzine will be on hand all weekend bringing you the stories, photos, and results of SCSN IX. Will we see the all-time doorslammer records fall this weekend? Keep it tuned here to find out!
Mike Murillo has a good history here at SCSN, but it doesn’t come without hard work, He and crewmember Johnny Ray were in the pits this morning swapping converters to get ready for today’s first of five qualifying shots over the next three days.Also on the converter-swapping train this morning was the El General team, with the car driven by Eric Dillard and tuned by Steve Petty. They ran an unbelievable 5.75 last night in the test session – and our spy sources say 5.60’s may be possible this weekend. 5.60’s!Mike Walterson (left) has this beautiful ’69 Nova ready to compete in the Outlaw 10.5 class with a true backhalf/stock front suspension setup. The car relies on a 762-cube Fulton engine with four stages of nitrous and is mostly homebuilt. He plans on taking baby steps in the qualifying sessions as he’s working with a number of new components. The highlight of his weekend so far? Driving through a hellish snowstorm in Montana during his 1,000 mile ride from Calgary, Alberta, Canada.Also making the trip from Calgary is the Xtreme Drag Radial entry of Derek Przeginiak. Derek’s ride has a 434 small-block Ford pumped up by a set of Alamo Turbocharger’s finest modified Garrett GTX 88mm snails. A Hutch Powerglide transmission is also on board. His personal best is a 6.96 at 211 MPH, but with the great conditions in the forecast along with a couple of changes made to the car, the PSCA/NMCA West competitor is looking for 6.70’s this weekend.The tech line has been full and steady all morning – the facility is packed, with more cars rolling in by the minute.We caught up with Troy Coughlin’s crew chief Bryan Metzenheim this morning to chat about the combination in Troy’s Corvette. The turbocharged Outlaw Pro Mod made a couple of hits yesterday, and Metz spent plenty of time looking through the data and pondering the changes to make. Since the team is allowed to use a pair of 98mm turbochargers, figuring out the fuel system is key. Metz showed us his logbook, but we’d have to kill you if we showed you those pictures. The Steve Petty-tuned machine is always in the mix; we’d expect nothing less this weekend.Brant Campbell is here from Texas with his sweet split-bumper Camaro – we looked for him in the pits but couldn’t find him. We’ll try to catch up with him later.We’ll have more updates shortly, but we just had to share this one immediately. Tonight, in the Pro Mod Challenge, Eric Dillard, driving the El General car, absolutely wrecked the field with an incredible 5.706 at 260.61 MPH – tying the quickest pass in Pro Mod history (Jose Gonzalez, driving the same car) down to the thousandth of a second. The .60’s are just around the corner.How about that Billy Glidden? He’s been running in NMCA Pro Street all year, but strapped the 10.5’s on the Mickey Thompson-sponsored machine for this race. He proceeded to rip off a stout 6.403 at only 195.98 MPH to top the ladder after the first round of qualifying.Just moments after this photo was taken, legendary West Coast 10.5 racer Doug Sikora went to #3 on the Outlaw 10.5 ladder with an easy 6.55 hit. For those of you who don’t know, just two weeks ago Doug had a heart attack, but was cleared by his doctor to hop back in the seat for this weekend. The car has been much quicker in the past, but Doug wanted to take an easy pass during today’s session.Mark Luton (left) owns one of the quickest Modular-powered machines on the planet. He’s currently 13th with a 7.11 shutoff pass in Outlaw 10.5. Doug Paddock purchased Dwayne James’ old NMRA Outlaw 10.5 machine and prepped it for use in PSCA and SCSN competition. Paddock is still sneaking up on the combination and sits right behind Luton with a soft 7.39 at 181 MPH.John Stanley made the trek all the way out from Maryland to race here this weekend, The longtime racer runs a 521-cube Hemi in his ’68 Camaro and ran an outstanding 5.79 at only 204 MPH in the Pro Mod Showdown – he’s got much more in the tank for this weekend and will definitely be a player come Sunday.Adam Flamholc, injured in a horrific crash in St. Louis several weeks ago, recently purchased Dan Nickelson’s record-holding Dodge Viper and, while still on the mend, is back on the horse this weekend, blasting to a 5.89 in the first session in Outlaw Pro Mod.John Urist is here competing in the XDR/TT5 class with his NMRA Street Outlaw machine. Despite giving up a lot of turbo, a lot of engine, and a lot of tire to the rest o the competition, Urist carded a 7.26 tonight in the qualifying round. His car is “as it sits” in NMRA competition and he’s using this weekend as a test session. He’s always a player, though, even though he’s off the pace at the moment.Steven Fereday’s ’95 Firehawk is one of the quickest LSX cars on the planet – he went a 6.83 tonight to sit second in XDR.Mike Keenan wrapped up an outstanding first day of qualifying. The ’99 Camaro crossed the stripe with a 6.77 at a whopping 222 MPH in XDR/TT5 to nail down the top spot. Only one other competitor, Roger Holder, is even close to that MPH – and the next closest competitor, Fereday, is 10 MPH back.Eric Gustafson has Jason Lee, Patrick Barnhill, and Racecraft’s Matt Mungall here this weekend working as crew on his beautiful ’89 Mustang, Gustafson cranked off an outstanding 4.73 (eighth-mile) to take the top spot in Wild Street.We absolutely LOVE Darce Laws’ sweet ’65 Olds 442. The car has a 400-inch small-block Chevrolet engine between the framerails pumped up by an 88mm turbocharger. The Casper, Wyoming resident usually runs in the 5000-foot air in Colorado and is working on a tuneup for the improved conditions here in Vegas. This thing screams badass in a field full of Mustangs and Camaros in Wild Street.“The Zip Tie Jedi”, Danny Castle, bought this Nova from NMCA Xtreme Street regular Dan Kroll and proceeded to stick a 632-cube BBC eating a couple of kits of nitrous between the framerails. They were in the process of repairing a leaky nitrous line just before their Wild Street hit and qualified eleventh with a 5.25/134 MPH hit.What can we really say about Outlaw 8.5 racer Ryan “Toaster” Jones? Toaster simply outclassed the competition in 8.5, ripping off an unreal 5.05 at 147 MPH, nearly four tenths and 9 MPH quicker than the number-two qualifier, Kevin Keller. Jones simply has the tiny tire and power management figured out.Dana Westover has the only non-domestic vehicle in the Outlaw 8.5 class. The Las Vegas resident turned in a 5.56 at 138 to land in the third qualified spot today.Mike DeMayo, Jr. must have known what was in store for his Hot Street competition. His 8.11/166 MPH blast was the class of the field by two-and-a-half tenths tonight. The longtime small-block-Ford racer has engine builder Gaby Labiosa of EIC Motorsports helping to get the car down the track this weekend.
Round One Qualifying Results/Pro Mod Showdown Results
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We’ll be back tomorrow with more – stay tuned all weekend!
